Hey YA Readers!
Let’s dive into this week’s book news and new paperback books.
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New Releases
Two of this week’s exciting paperback releases. Note you may need to toggle at the link to get to the paperback edition.
Want more of this week’s YA paperback releases? Here you go!
Fireworks by Alice Lin
If you are looking for a K-Pop inspired rom-com, look no further. Lulu is ready for her final summer before going off to college, but plans are changed when her childhood best friend Kite–who has built a career as a K-Pop artists–is taking a break and heading back home. Now they’ve got the chance to reconnect as friends . . . and maybe more.
(Can we talk about the cats on this cover?)
A Wicked Magic by Sasha Laurens
This book has been on my radar for a while and is pitched as The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The Craft.
Dan and Liss are witches, and after a spell gone wrong, they find their friendship in a precarious place when Liss’s boyfriend disappears. Liss assumes he is dead but months later, after the disappearance of another girl, she realizes both of them are being held underground by an evil demon.
To end the predicament, Liss and Dan need to rekindle their friendship. But it won’t be easy to do that OR to harness their power and undo the spell gone wrong.
For a more comprehensive list, check out our New Books newsletter.
YA Book News
There’s a lot of trailer news this week, so grab some popcorn!
- The full trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty is here.
- Here’s the teaser trailer for the adaptation of Christopher Pike’s The Midnight Club.
- And the teaser trailer for the prequel to The Hunger Games.
- I did not realize Love & Gelato was being adapted, let alone that it’ll hit Netflix very soon. Here’s the full trailer. Those teenagers . . . do not look like teenagers.
- Brandy Colbert and Eliot Schrefer talk about the quiet censorship they’ve experienced.
- Speaking of Eliot Schrefer, check out his conversation with Trevor Noah (!) about his just-released YA nonfiction about queer animals.
- DC is releasing three new YA graphic novels next spring. Here’s who’ll star in them.
Thanks for hanging out! We’ll be back on Saturday with your ebook deals.
Until then, happy reading!
— Kelly Jensen, @veronikellymars on Twitter.